Use a blog, twitter, and facebook at the Same Time with 3 steps
by Paul Prins at 2:09 pmOne of the great things about this whole web 2.0 thing is how different websites work together. This is done by them providing access to their system through something called an API. But what it means for us, less work!
So how does it mean less work? As someone in ministry (or even working full time) the prospect of being able to trim time off of our list of to-dos is very exciting. So here is how you can post on your blog, and have that update your twitter account, and Facebook status for free. Follow these 3 simple steps.
The Three Steps
- Install & Setup TwitMe on your blog
- Activate the Twitter facebook application (here)
- Blog and watch the magic happen!
First you need to install (or if you have an account here at insights for church, you only need to activate) the plug-in Twitme (Download it Here). What this plug-in does is post a tweet to your twitter account whenever you post something to your blog. It does more then that but that is the excited part for us here. All you need to do is supply your user name and password for it to work.
Next you activate the twitter Facebook application. With hundreds of millions of people on Facebook and some tens of millions joining each month this is a dynamic and quick way to update your status.
One more quick trick
Facebook has a feature that allows you to import your blog posts directly into Facebook into their ‘notes’ application by editing the import settings. All you need to do is paste in the URL to your feed (for word press users this is the address of your blog + ‘/feed/’ so the feed for us here is http://nineteen05.insightsforchurch.com/feed/).
Why do all this?
One of the biggest secrets to advertising is customer impressions. How many interactions does someone have with your brand/you. As a church leader this generally translates to this:
The more times someone hears from you during the week, the more your message and relevance increases for them, leading to more life change, and a greater commitment to Christ.
If it is as simple as taking 5 minutes to set something up, to maximize on what you are already doing. I say go for it!
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